ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 outlines a holistic, synthetic vision for facilitating hominoid coexistence in the 21st century and beyond. In this chapter, a case is made for the embrace of new approaches and conceptual developments that elevate integrative niche dynamics to a position of analytical primacy. Furthermore, a dialectical approach has the capacity to highlight the heterogeneity and complexity of relationships by recognising how the inseparability of the natural and the social impacts our science and subjectivities. Will the future involve an untangling of our entanglements, a selective enhancement or rejection of our management over formerly wild places and species, or indeed an embrace of our multispecies, post-nature relationships and correspondingly, a shift in what we mean by “conservation”?
